Appal

Or to appal anyone you might be giving a lift to in your car. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For on that day in 1914, as the first gruesome list of casualties from the front began to appal the nation at home, a cricketer whose single feat had entranced the whole game back in one of its sunny Victorian summers of innocence was killed in France. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Latest to appal the easily appalled is a selection of T-shirts, designed to increase Nike's share of the action sports market. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gaddafi had the ability to amaze and appal, to shock and amuse, simultaneously and in equal measure. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was supposed to have outgrown all that and it can only appal the England manager, Fabio Capello, particularly as the reduction in numbers heartened the hosts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Despite being treated with contempt over the centuries, these narratives served not only to amaze and appal children but to teach them coded lessons about the realities of life, from toilet training to pregnancy, argues Germaine Greer ❋ Unknown (2010)

William Hague, the foreign secretary, warned that if the "medieval" execution went ahead it would "disgust and appal" the world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"She has already faced the disgraceful punishment of 99 lashes for adultery; her execution would disgust and appal the watching world." ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have crackpot theories about football that would appal proper footie fans. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In a move which will appal most people and infuriate any English Taxpayer who would, if he has to be looted, wish that his money is spent wisely by the Scottish Executive, Nicola Sturgeon said: ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was a sight to appal the eye and pierce the soul. ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)

Its behaviour is simply unacceptable and should appal everyone who wants the Met to be a representative force. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A sample:The bloggers that appal you so much are united in an obvious love and pride for the counter-cultural challenge of being Catholic in the modern age. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Edgar listened to the account with the most unaffected dismay, and represented the probable danger, and actual impropriety of such an intercourse, in the strongest and most eloquent terms; but he could neither appal her confidence, nor subdue her esteem. ❋ Unknown (2008)